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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at those absentee numbers and tell me that anyone leaving Drew for Montessori must be a racist! There are so many factors going on there. I think race probably does play a role, but I think poverty and attendance and school performance matter more to most parents.

Sad to see the Wakefield number.

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The Wakefield number is heartbreaking.   [/quote]
It makes sense considering Drew, Randolph and Abingdon send students there.[/quote]

It also makes isense considering almost no one went to school in person at Wakefield that Covid year. I think less than 10% of kids came back - it was the worst of all the HS's. I had a DD there at the time, and there were like 2-4 kids in most classes. That's when all the absentee problems spiked, and they have not recovered.[/quote]

Covid fundamentally changed the perception that school was important. If you can miss an entire year in person and then 5-10 days cause you caught virus well then how important can it really be?[/quote]

Grading and retake policies haven't helped.[/quote]

Please explain how grading and retake are linked to attendance. This is an APE position that I do not understand at all. Seems to just be APE blaming APS for everything. [/quote]

DP but this study looked a statewide change in North Carolina and absences increased.

https://edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai23-836.pdf

Empirically, under a research design that leverages variation from a statewide grading policy and school entry rules, we find that an increase in leniency mechanically increased student GPA without increasing student achievement.[b] At the same time, this policy
induced students to increase their school absences.[/b][/quote]

methinks you do not understand correlation vs causation[/quote]

That is a direct quote from the research paper itself. 
Methinks you do not understand nuance and that the cause of something does not have to be just one thing.[/quote]

just because you took it from somewhere else doesn't make it automatically true[/quote]

Just like one person’s interpretation of (incomplete) data isn’t necessarily true.

Same thing.[/quote]

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